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#Sopranos fans know the #BustOut as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mob does it, it's a bust out; when Wall Street does it, it's #PrivateEquity.

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It used to be that we rarely heard about private equity, but then, as national chains and iconic companies started to vanish, this mysterious financial arrangement popped up with increasing frequency.

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68.01/ Week sixty-eight, Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2021, thread begins here.

Week 67 below
68.02/ This is right in my wheelhouse: scholarship laden pop-culture analysis. This is of #Dune

68.03/ #Dune is an incredibly flawed book that's nonetheless fascinating. Also, as a kid I thought the (pseudo) Arabic was Hebrew. e.g. "Kwisatz Haderach" which I eventually recognized from Midrash (from last week's parsha! God "shortened Eliezer's way"):
sefaria.org/Rashi_on_Genes…
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Best "all smoke, no fire" Oilers trade rumor, all-time:
It took me MUCH longer than it should have to remember "Dany Heatly", likely due to the psychic after-effects of this whole sad episode.

IIRC it was Cogs, Pens, Smiddy but Dany was like "wait, what???!" like some hacky 90s comedian?
If the NHL was the Sopranos, Dany Heatly would be AJ (Anthony Junior) Soprano, hand's down.

What current/former NHLer aligns with another Sopranos character?

Not based on looks - but personality
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